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GIVE  the  gem  that  dims  the  noon 
I    To  the  noblest  or  to  none- 

-EWERSON 


As  touching  on  kindness — Divine  and  human 


How  excellent  is  thy  loving  kindness,  O  God! 
therefore  the  children  of  men  put  their  trust  under 
the  shadow  of  thy  wings. — Ps.  xxxiv:7. 

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Come  learn  with  me  the  perfect  song 
Which  knits  the  world  in  music  strong; 

Come  lift  thine  eyes  to  lofty  rhymes 

Of  things  with  things,  of  times  with  times. 

— Emerson. 


"His  arm  lies  soft  round  the  lilies, 

Their  care  is  only  to  be. 
Ah,  hushed  by  the  tender  lesson, 
My  God,  let  me  trust  in  Thee." 

"The  common  deeds  of  the  common  day 
Are  ringing  bells  in  the  far-away. "  t 


Let  thy  soul  walk  softly  in  thee 
As  a  saint  in  Heaven  unshod, 

For  to  be  alone  with  silence 
Is  to  be  alone  with  God. 

—  L.  M.  Hageman. 

"Beautiful  is  the  year  in  its  coming,  and  in  its 
going    most   beautiful    and   blessed,    because    it    is 
'The  year  of  our  Lord.'  * 


To  loiter  down  lone  alleys  of  delight, 

And  hear  the  beating  of  the  hearts  of  trees, 

And  think  the  thoughts   that  lilies  speak  m  white 
By  greenwood  pools  and  pleasant  passages. 

—  Sidney  Lanier. 


"Back  of  the  loaf  is  the  snowy  flour, 

And  back  of  the  flour  the  mill, 
And  back  of  the  mill  is  the  shower, 
And  the  sun,  and  the  Father's  will." 

That  exquisite  poise  of  character  which  we  call 
serenity  is  last  lesson  of  culture;  it  is  the  flowering 
of  life,. 'the  fruitage  of  the  soul. 

If  only  we  strive  to  be  pure  and  true, 
To  each  of  us  there  will  come  an  hour 
When  the  tree  of  life  shall  burst  into  flower 
And  rain  at  our  feet  a  glorious  dower 

Of  something  grander  than  ever  we  knew. 


Submission,  courage,  exertion,  these  seem  to  be 
the  weapons,  with  which  we  must  fight  life's  long 
battle. — Charlotte  Bronte. 

They  are  never  alone  who  are  accompanied 
with  noble  thoughts. — Sidney. 


"This  world  of  God's  is  brighter 

Than  we  ever  dreamed  or  know; 
Its  burdens  growing  lighter, 

And  it's  Love  that  makes  it  so. 
And  I'm  thankful  that  I'm  living, 

When  Love's  blesedness  I  see, 
'Neath  a  Heaven  that's  forgiving 

When  the  bells  ring  home  to  me." 

'Tomorrow  fresh  shall  rise  from  out  the  night. 
And  new  baptize  the  indomitable  soul 
With  courage  for  the  never  ending  fight." 


In  the  beauty  of  the  lilies 

Christ  was  born  across  the  sea 

With  a  glory  in  His  bosom 

That  transfigures  you  and  me; 

As  He  died  to  make  men  holy 
Let  me  die  to  make  men  free. 

— Julia    Ward  Hove. 


When  we  think  of  Good  the  angels  are  silent; 
when  we  do  it  they  rejoice. — Mrs.   Whitney. 


'The  poppies  are  chalices  golden, 
Unmatched  is  the  lily's  art, 

But  the  gift  unspeakable,  precious. 
Is  spent  on   the  contrite  heart.'* 


As  the  marsh  hen  secretly  builds  in  the  watery' sod 
Behold  I  will  build  me  a  nest  in  the  greatness  of 

God; 
I  will  fly  in  the  greatness  of  God  as  the  marsh 

hen  flies 
In  the  freedom  that  fills  all  the  space  'twixt  the 

marsh  and  the  skies; 
By  so  many  roots  as  the  marsh  grass  sends  in  the 

sod 
I  will  heartily  lay  me  a  hold  on  the  greatness  of 

God; 
Oh!  like  to  the  greatness  of  God  is  the  greatness 

within 
The  range  of  the  marshes,  the  liberal  marshes  of 

Glynn.  — Sidney  Lanier. 


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Death  is  a  sleep — through  Christ  we  wake, 

Escape  this  world  of  strife; 
The  garment  of  salvation  take, 

And  reign  in  endless  life. 

—W.   W.  Case. 

No  one  performs  an  act  of  kindness,  but  plants 
a  flower  in  his  own  heart. 


The  faithful  Christian  never  outlives  his  usefulness. 

Do  not  clamor  for  spiritual  confectionery;  cul- 
tivate a  taste  for  the  sincere  milk  of  the  Word. 

Happiness  generally  shuns  the  abodes  of  grand- 
eur, and  takes  up  her  dwelling  with  the  humble 
poor. 

—W.   W.  Case. 


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Each  in  her  place  appointed, 

The  lily  dwells  serene; 
She  cares  not  though  the  thistles  blow 

Anear  her  leaf  of  green; 
Her  neighbors  cannot  vex  her  soul 

For  she  was  born  a  queen. 

— Margaret  Sangster. 

The  great  thing  in  the  world  is  not  so  much 
where  we  stand,  as  in  what  direction  we  are 
moving. — Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


"To  die  is  landing  on  some  distant  shore, 
Where  billows  never  break,  nor  tempests  roar." 

"Let  your  souls  lie  down  upon  His  sweet  will, 
as  your  bodies  lie  down  at  night.  Relax  every 
strain  and  lay  off  every  burden." 


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"And  God  is  within,  and  around  me; 

All  good  is  forever  divine; 
To  all  who  seek  it  is  given, 
It  comes  by  a  law  divine.'' 

Our    religious   differences    mostly    spring   from 
what  all  of  us  do  not  know,  but  pretend  to  know. 

All  our  humanities  center  in  our  individuality. 
All  virtue  is  the  fcrthputting  of  individuality. 
All  sin  is  the  surrender  of  individuality. 

— Dr.   Edersheim. 


From  the  dark  chambers  of  dejection  freed, 
Spurning  the  unprofitable  yoke  of  care, 

Rise,  rise!   The  gales  of  youth  shall  bear 
Thy  genius  forward  like  a  winged  steed! 

— Wordsworth. 

"Heaven  is  not  deaf  but  when  man's  heart  is 
dumb." 


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I  cannot  think  but  God  must  know 

About  the  thing  I  long  for  so; 

I  know  he  is  so  good  and  kind 

I  cannot  think  but  he  will  find 

Some  way  to  help,  some  way  to  show 

To  me  the  thing  I  long  for  so." 


What    we    call    disappointments    are    only    not 
God's  appointments. 


Trials  are  God's  veiled  angels  to  us. 


A  Christian  is  like   a  diamond,   flashing  many 
colors  in  the  light  of  the  Son  of  Righteousness. 


These  are  the  four  stages: 

Sine  timore  et  sine  amore; 
Cum  timore  et  sine  amore; 
Cum  timore  et  cum  amore; 
Sine  timore  et  cum  amore. 

—Alfred  Edersheim,  D.  D. 


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He  prayeth  best  who  lovest  best 
All  things  both  great  and  small; 

For  the  dear  God  who  loveth  us 
He  made  and  loveth  all. 

— Coleridge. 

Let  us  not  be  amused  with  beautiful  theories, 
when  we  ought  to  be  awed  by  sublime  facts. 

Mere  secular  education  is  like  the  rainbow 
which  has  its  beginning  and  its  end  in  earth. 
Christian  education  is  the  rainbow  inverted.  It 
begins  in  heaven,  descends  with  its  beautiful  arch, 
illuminates  and  gladdens  the  earth  with  its  light, 
rises  upward  again,  and  is  lost  in  the  heavens. 

—W.  W.  Case. 


God   never  would   send   you   the   darkness, 
If  he  thought  you  could  bear  the  light; 

But  you  would  not  cling  to  his  guiding  hand, 
If  the  way  were  always  bright; 

And  you  would  not  care  to  walk  by  faith, 
Could  you  always  walk  by  sight. 


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"He  makes  a  road  of  our  broken  works, 
And  a  rainbow  of  our  tears." 

"Prayer    is    not   conquering    God's    reluctance; 
but  taking  hold  of  God's  willingness." 


Thou  must  believe  and  thou  must  venture, 
In  fearless  Faith  thy  safety  dwells; 

By  miracles  alone  men  enter 
The  glorious  land  of  miracles. 

— Schiller. 


Space  is  as  nothing  to  spirit  the  deed  is  outdone 

by  the  doing; 
The  heart  of  the  wooer  is  warm,  but  warmer  the 

heart  of  the  wooing; 
And  up  from  the  pits  where  these  shiver,  and  up 

from  the  heights  where  those  shine, 
Twin  voices  and  shadows  swim  starward,  and  the 

essence  of  life  is  divine. 

—Richard  Realf. 


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"If  there  be  a  weaker  one, 

Give  me  strength  to  help  him  on; 
If  a  blinder  soul  there  be, 

Let  me  guide  him  nearer  Thee." 

— Whittier. 

Wisdom  is  knowing  what  to  do  next;  skill  is 
knowing  how  to  do  it,  and  virtue  is  doing  it. — 
David  Starr  Jordan. 

Like  the  blind  spinner  in  the  sun 

I  tread  my  days; 
I  know  that  all  the  threads  will  run 

Appointed  way. 

— Helen  Hunt  Jackson. 


I  think  that  man  is  vastly  superior  to  woman — 
as  man;  and  woman  is  vastly  superior  to  man — 
as  woman;  and  that  both  of  them  together  are 
more  than  a  match  for  either  of  them  separately. 
— Henry  Ward  Beecher. 


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He  is  coming,  O  my  spirit!   with  His  everlasting 

peace, 

With  His  blessedness  immortal  and  complete. 
He    is   coming,    O   my   spirit!    and     His     coming 

brings  release — 
I  listen  for  the  coming  of  His  feet. 

— Lyman  Allen. 

It  is  not  the  things  we  have  to  bear  that  give  us 
the  most  sorrow; — it  is  the  spirit  in  which  we  bear 
them  that  causes  the  great  trouble. 


Deep  malice  makes  too  deep  incision, 
Forget,  forgive. 

— Shakespeare. 

"Life  my  be  lived  with  so  fine  a  grace, 
That  the  music  of  life  is  interpreted 
In  the  lines  of  a  wrinkled  face." 


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And  the  love  my  heart  would  speak, 

I  fold  in  the  lily's  rim, 
That  the  lips  of  the  blossom,  more  pure  and  meek, 

May  offer  it  up  to  Him. 

-Ina  Coolbrlth. 


When  one  errs  from  ignorance  he  merits  pity; 
but  when  he  errs  wilfully  let  us  be  sparing  in  our 
reproaches,  for  all  men  have  human  sensibilities. 

The  reading  of  novels  confines  the  thoughts  of 
men  to  things  below;  the  perusal  of  the  Bible 
raises  them  to  things  above. — William  Downey. 

O,  weep  no  more!  yet  there  is  balm 
In  Gilead!  Love  doth  ever  shed 
Rich  healing  where  it  nestles — spread 

O'er  desert  pillows  some  green  palm. 

— Gerald  Masse]?. 


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A  voice  from  the  lily-bells  calling, 
Rang  out  on  the  even  air  clear: 
"O  ye  blossoms!   awake,  in  the  gardens! 

The  Lord  of  the  flowers  comes  near! 
O  awake!  in  the  field  and  woodland, 
The  Maker  of  blosoms  is  here." 

— Jessie  O'Dormell. 

To  educate  the  heart,  one  must  be  willing  to 
go  out  of  himself,  and  to  come  into  loving  con- 
tact with  others. — James  Freeman  Clark- 


|/    O  keep  not  your  kindness  for  my  cold,  dead  brow ! 
My  path  is  lonely — let  me  feel  your  kindness  now, 
Think  kindly  of  me — I  am  travel-worn; 
My  faltering  feet  are  pierced  with  many  a  thorn; 
For  friendship  and  for  love  I  plead — 
When  dreamless  rest  is  mine  I  shall  not  need 
The  sympathy  for  which  I  long  to-day, 
To  give  some  brightness  to  my  weary  way. 


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Trials  must  and  will  befall; 

But,  with  humble  faith,  to  see 
Love  inscribed  upon   them  all, — 

This  is  happiness  to  me. 

— Cowper. 

"Cur  greatest  glory  is  not  in  never  falling,  but 
in  rising  every  time  we  fall.** 


"Hope  for  the  best,  get  ready  for  the  worst, 
and  then  take  what  God  sends." 

Christianity  will  some  day  summon  Science  to 
the  bar  of  the  world's  judgment  as  her  strongest 
witness  and  most  hopeful  ally. — Spurgeon. 


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Boys  flying  kites  haul  in  their  white-winged  birds; 
You  can't  do  that  way  when  you're  flying  words. 
Thoughts  unexpressed  may  sometimes  fall  back 

dead, — 

But  God  himself  can't  kill  them  when  they're  said 

—mil  Carlton. 

Sorrow  is  the  mere  rust  of  the  soul.     Activity 
will  cleanse  and  brighten  it. 

Tis  better  to  live  rich  than  to  die  rich. — Dr. 
Johnson. 


*Tis  easy  enough  to  be  pleasant 

When  life  flows  by  like  a  song, 
But  the  man  worth  while, 
Is  the  man  with  a  smile 

When  everything  goes  dead  wrong. 

—Etta    Wheeler   Wilcox. 


"Try  to  be  too  strong  for  worry,  too  noble  for 
anger,  and  too  brave  for  fear." 


"O  Master,  let  me  walk  with  thee 
In  lowly  paths  of  service  free; 
Tell  me  thy  secret;  let  me  bear 
The  stain  of  toil,  the  feet  of  care." 

—Selected. 


An  artificial  flower  is  scarcely  to  be  distinguished 
from  a  genuine  one;  but  put  them  out  in  a  drench- 
ing shower,  and  the  difference  is  immediately  dis- 
cerned. 

There  is  both  an  outer  and  an  inner  life;  the 
outer  life  lies  open  to  the  observations  of  the  many 
....  We  do  not  know  our  most  intimate  friends, 
and  we  ourselves  are  often  made  painfully  con- 
scious of  the  fact  that  we  are  not  understood. 
We  are  misjudged  and  must  walk  alone.  We 
all  know  what  it  is  to  walk  alone. — W .  W.  Case. 

The  air  for  the  wing  of  a  sparrow, 
The  brush  for  the  robin  and  wren, 

But  always  the  path  that  is  narrow 
And  straight  for  the  children  of  men. 

— Alice  Carep. 


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"May  there  be  just  clouds  enough  over  your  life 
to  cause  a  glorious  sunset." 

"Get  thy  spindle  and  thy  distaff,  and  God  will 
send  the  flax." 

The  rising  of  Christ — an  entreaty — 
Hands  reached  to  the  seas  as  he  saith, 
"Have  faith!"  and  all  seas  are  repeating, 
"Have  Faith!   Have  Faith!   Have  Faith!" 
Look  starward;  stand  far  and  unearthy, 
Free-souled  as  a  banner  unfurled. 
Be  worthy,  O  brother,  be  worthy, 
For  a  God  was  the  price  of  the  world. 
— Joaquin  Miller. 


Charity  and  personal  force  are  the  only  two  in- 
vestments worth  anything. — Whitman. 

It  is  my  habit, — I  hope  I  may  say  my  nature — 
to  believe  die  best  I  hear  of  people,  rather  than 
the  worst. — G.  W.  Curtis. 


Let  me  see  a  man  work  heartily,  talk  heartily, 
eat  heartily,  and  shake  hands  heartily,  and  in  my 
heart  I  thank  him  heartily  for  setting  me  such  a 
hearty  example. — Borvden  Green. 

"A  plant  in  the  window  grew  and  grew, 
But  it  yielded  naught  that  was  fair  to  view; 
Till  at  last  one-  day  a  flower  fair 
Like  a  spirit  of  beauty  rested  there. 
The  ugliest  shape  may  be  found  to  hold 
A  soul  of  the  loveliest,  rarest  mold, 
And  blossom  time  comes,  be  it  soon  or  late, 
For  him  who  has  patience  to  work  and  wait.'* 


Silence  is  a  great  peacemaker. — Longfellow. 

^  We  find  in  life  exactly  what  we  put  into  it. — 
Emerson. 

We  must  be  poor  to  know  the  luxury  of  giving. 
— George  Elliot. 


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I  know  not  where  His  islands  lift 

Their  fronded  palms  in  air; 
I  only  know  I  cannot  drift 

Beyond  His  love  and  care. 

— Whittier. 

No  longer  forward  nor  behind 

I  look  in  hope  or  fear; 
But  grateful,  take  the  good  I  find, 

The  best  of  now  and  here. 

— John  C.   Whittier. 


"What's  done  for  earth  fails  by  and  by; 
What's  done  for  God  can  never  die. 
What's  done  for  God  is  placed  on  high, 
Tis  treasured  in  Eternity. 
While  ages  are  passing  by, 
What's  done  for  God  can  never  die." 

— Sarah  M.  DeLine. 

"Whatever  we  admire  and  greatly  desire^to  be- 
come, that  we  in  some  measure  already  are/* 


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"I   shall  not  pass  this  way   again," 
But  far  beyond  earth's  Where  and  When, 
May  I  look  back  along  a  road 
Where  on  both  sides  good  seed  I  sowed. 

I  shall  not  pass  this  way  again, 
May  wisdom  guide  my  tongue  and  pen, 
And  Love  be  mine  so  that  I  may 
"Plant  roses  all  along  the  way." 

— Clarence  Urm\). 


God's  goodness  hath  been  great  to  thee; 
Let  never  day  or  night  unhallowed  pass; 
But  still  remember  what  the  Lord  hath  done. 

— Shakespeare. 

*'Be  what  thou  seemeth,  live  thy  creed, 
Hold  up  to  earth  the  torch  divine; 
Be  what  thou  prayest  to  be  made, 
Let  the  great  Master's  steps  be  thine." 

Train  yourself  to  find  the  good  in  what  seems 
evil;  to  make  of  disaster  an  opportunity  for  your 
courage;  to  master  suffering  by  patience;  to  learn 
from  sorrow  sympathy. — G.  5.  Merriam. 


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That  plenty   but   reproaches   me 

That  leaves  my  brother  bare, 
Not  wholly  glad  my  heart  can  be 

While  his  is  bowed  with  care. 

— S.  E.  Martin. 

The  flighty  purpose  never  is  overtook, 
Unless  the  deed  go  with  it.     From  the  moment, 
The  very  firstling  of  my  heart  shall  be 
The  firstling  of  my  hands. 

— Shakespeare. 

Immortality  will  come  to  such  as  are  fit  for  it; 
and  he  who  would  be  a  great  soul  in  the  future 
must  be  a  great  soul  now. — Emerson. 


'A  little  bit  of  patience 

Often  makes  the  sunshine  come, 
And  a  little  bit  of  love 

Makes  a  very  happy  home; 
A  little  bit  of  hope 

Makes  a  rainy  day  look  gay, 
And  a  little  bit  of  charity 

Makes  glad  a  weary  way." 

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Christ  leads  us  through  no  darker  rooms 

Than  He  has  gone  before; 
Whoso  into  God's  kingdom  comes 

Must  enter  by  the  door. 

— Baxter. 

All  the  shadows  of  night 
The  world  rolls  into  light — 
It  is  daybreak  everywhere. 


We  hand  folks  over  to  God's  mercy,  and  show 
none  ourselves. — George  Elliot. 

In  bright  or  brighter  places,  wheresoever  ye  may 

roam — 
Ye  look  away  from  earth-land,   and  ye  murmur, 

"Where  is  home?" 

Homeless  hearts,  God  is  home. 

The  rapidity  with  which  the  human  mind  lends 
itself  to  the  standard  around  it  gives  us  the  most 
pertinent  warning  as  to  the  company  we  keep. — 
Lowell. 


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Go  speed  the  stars  of  thought 

On  to  their  shining  goals; 
The  sower  scatters  broad  his  seed, 

The  wheat  thou  streweth  be  souls. 

— Emerson. 


In  the  day  of  adversity  the  Comforter  will  show 
you  that  the  rod  in  His  hand  is  a  pencil  by  which 
He  draws  God's  image  in  fairer  lines  upon  his 
soul. — Rev.  James  Sherman. 


We  must  use  no  words  that  we  are  not  pre- 
pared to  back  up  with  deeds. — Theodore  Roose- 
velt. 


"The  happiest  heart  that  ever  beat, 

Was  in  some  quiet  breast, 
That  found  the  common  daylight  sweet, 
And  left  to  Heaven  the  rest." 


Christ  came,  lived  and  died  to  woo  us  into  har- 
mony with  the  Father. — Bishop  Hughes. 


Be  not  like  a  stream  that  brawls — 
Loud  with  shallow  waterfalls, 

But  in  quiet  self-control 

Link  together  soul  and  soul. 

— Longfellow. 

Ruskin  remarks  that  youth  is  a  period  of  build- 
ing up,  in  habits,  hopes,  and  faiths.  Not  an  hour 
but  is  trembling  with  destinies — not  a  moment  once 
passed  of  which  the  appointed  work  can  ever  be 
done  again,  or  the  neglected  blow  struck  on  the 
cold  iron. 


He  who  will  not  ride  in  God's  chariot  drags  it 
in  chains. — Hardy. 

"Be  to  her  virtues  very  kind, 
But  to  her  faults  a  little  blind." 


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Gone  with  our  yesterdays  folded  apart, 
Laid  by  with  treasures  we  hide  in  the  heart, 
The  year  that  has  left  us  so  silently  shod, 
Hath  carried  its  record  of  earth  up  to  God. 
— Margaret  Songster. 

Whatever  we  greatly  admire  and  ardently  de- 
sire to  become,  that — we  in  some  measure  already 
are. 


"To  think  well  of  all,  to  be  cheerful  w.th  all, 
to  patiently  learn  to  find  the  good  m  all,  such  un- 
selfish thoughts  are  the  very  portals  of  heaven;  and 
to  dwell  day  by  day  in  thoughts  of  peace  toward 
every  creature  will  bring  abounding  peace  to  t 
possessor." 

God  plants  us  where  we  grow, — 
Helps  us  to  turn  disaster  * 


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"One  of  the  sweet  old  chapters — 

The  love  that  blossoms  through ; 
His  care  of  the  birds  and  lilies 

Out  in  the  evening  dew; 
The  evening  lies  soft  around  them; 

Their  faith  is  simple  to  be. 
O,  hushed  by  the  tender  lesson, 

My  God,  let  me  rest  in  Thee.'* 

O  God,  make  me  a  child  again  even  before  I 
die,  and  give  me  back  the  simple  faith,  the  clear 
vision  of  a  child  that  holds  his  father's  hand. — 
Heine. 

It  is  a  comely  fashion  to  be  glad; 
Joy  is  the  grace  we  say  to  God. 

— Jean  Ingeloto. 


'Be  strong,  be  strong,  to  my  heart  I  cry, 
The  pearl  in  the  wounded  shell  doth  lie ; 
Days  of  sunshine  are  given  to  all 
Though  into  each  heart  some  rain  must  fall.'* 


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He  always  wins  who  sides  with  God, 

To  him  no  chance  is  lost; 
God's  will  is  sweetness  to  him  when 

It  triumphs  at  his  cost. 

—F.  W.  Fabcr. 


"Happiness  is   a  perfume  you  cannot  pour  on 
others,  without  getting  a  few  drops  yourself." 


Beautiful  hands  are  those  that  do 
Work  that  is  earnest,  brave  and  true, 
Moment  by  moment,  the  long  day  through. 

O  youth!  for  years — so  many  and  so  sweet, 

Twas  known  that  thou  and  I  were  one; 
I'll  think  it  but  a  fond  conceit — 

What  strange  disguise  hast  now  put  on 
To  make  believe  that  thou  hast  gone? 

I  see  these  locks  in  silvery  slips — 
But  springtide  blossoms  on  thy  lips, 

And  tears  take  sunshine  from  thine  eyes; 
Life  is  but  thought;  so  think  I  will: 

That  youth  and  I  are  house-mates  still. 

— Coleridge. 


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The  way  is  short,  O  friend, 

That  reaches  out  before  us; 
God's  tender  heavens  above  us  bend, 

His  love  is  smiling  o'er  us; 
A  little  while  is  ours 

For  sorrow  or  for  laughter; 
I'll  lay  the  hand  you  love  in  yours 

On  the  shores  of  the  Hereafter. 

— Mari?  Clemmer. 


"The  secret  of  a  sweet  and  Christian  life  is 
learning  to  live  by  the  day.  It  is  the  long  stretches 
that  tire  us." 


Instead  of  a  gem,  or  even  a  flower,  cast  the  gift 
of  a  lovely  thought  into  the  heart  of  a  friend. — 
George  Macdonald. 

"Thine  to  work  as  well  as  pray, 

Clearing  thorny  wrongs  away; 
Plucking  up  the  weeds  of  sin, 

Letting  Heaven's  warm  sunshine  in.'* 


Here  are  the  heart  strings  a  tremble, 
And  here  is  the  chastening  rod; 

There  is  the  song  and  the  cymbal, 
And   there  is   the  Father  and  God. 

— Alice  Carey. 


f.j 


"Duty  is  the  great  mountain  road  to  God  which 
brings  us  the  peace  which  passeth  all  understand- 
ing." 


"Remember  that,  if  the  opportunities  for  great 
deeds  should  never  come,  the  opportunity  for 
good  deeds  is  renewed  day  by  day.  The  thing 
for  us  to  long  for  is  the  goodness,  not  the  glory.'* 

Man  pursues  his  weary  calling, 

And  wrings  the  hard  life  from  the  sky; 

While  happiness  unseen  is  falling 
Down  from  God's  bosom  silently. 


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Be  like  the  bird,  that  on  a  bough  too  frail 

To  bear  him,  gayly  swings; 
He  carols,  though  the  slender  branches  fail, — 

He  knows  that  he  has  wings. 

— Victor  Hugo. 

Kind  words  are  the  flowers  of  earth's  existence; 
use  them,  and  especially  around  the  fireside  circle. 
They  are  jewels  beyond  price,  and  powerful  to 
heal  the  wounded  heart  and  lift  the  heavy  spirit. 

"Who  never  at  his  bread  in  sorrow, 

Who  never  spent  the  midnight  hours 
Weeping,  watching  for  the  morrow, — 
He  know  you  not,  ye  Heavenly  Powers!'* 


"But  in  God's  good  time  every  weary  soul  shall 
be  rested." — A/.  E.  F. 


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"Troubles  that  never  come 

Make  most  gray  hair, 
And  backs  are  bent  by  loads 
They  never  bear." 

"No  service  in  itself  is  small, 
None  great,  though  earth  it  fill; 
But  that  is  small  that  seeks  its  own 
And  great  that  seeks  God's  will.'* 

An  arm  of  aid  to  the  weak; 

A  friendly  hand  to  the  friendless; 
Kind  words  so  short  to  speak, 

But  whose  echo  is  endless. 
The  world  is  wide,  these  things  are  small, 

They  might  be  nothing, — but  they  are  all. 
— R.  M lines. 


Our  grand  business  is,  not  to  see  what  lies 
dimly  to  a  distance,  but  to  do  what  lies  clearly 
at  hand. — Carlyle. 


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What  do  we  live  for,  if  it  is  not  to  make  life 
less  difficult  for  each  other? — Ceo.  Elliot. 


There  is  no  sorrow  I  have  thought  more  about 
than  that, — to  love  what  is  great,  to  try  to  reach 
it,  and  yet  to  fail. — Ceo.  Elliot. 


For  us  in  royal  vesture  glow 
The  lilies  He  called  so  fair. 

Which  never  toil  nor  spin,  yet  show 
The  loving  Father's  tender  care. 

— Dr.  Horatio  Powers. 


I  must  stand  with  anybody  that  stands  right; 
stand  with  him  while  he  is  right,  and  part  with 
him  when  he  goes  wrong. — Abraham  Lincoln. 


'My  bark  is  wafted  to  the  strand 

By   Breath  divine; 
And  on  the  helm  there  rests  a  hand 

Other  than  mine." 

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"Though  you  can  neither  preach  nor  sing, 

Nor  silver  have  nor  gold, 
A  word  of  kindness  you  can  wing 
To  those  without  the  fold." 

"Guard  well   thy  thoughts;   they  are  heard   in 
Heaven." 

There  yet  survive  a  few, 

Whose  deeds  are  daring  as  their  hearts  are  true. 

— Byron. 


"I  ask  Thee  for  the  daily  strength, 

To  none  that  ask  denied, 
A  mind  to  blend  with  outward  life 

While  keeping  at  Thy  side; 
Content  to   fill   a  little  space, 
If  thou  be  glorified." 

— Church  card,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


40 


"Then  nestle  your  hand  in  your  Father's 

And  sing  if  you  can  if  you  go, 
Your  song  may  cheer  some  one  behind  you 
Whose  courage  is  sinking  low/' 

"Let  your  life  be  like  the  snowflake, —  leave 
mark,  but  not  a  stain." 


If  you  would  be  loved  be  lovable* 
Love  is  the  Holy  Ghost  within; 
Hate  the  unpardonable  sin! 
Who   preaches  otherwise   than  this 
Betrays  his  Master  with  a  kiss. 

— Longfellow. 


"Tired  heart,  God  knows;  go  thou  to  work  or 
sleep." 


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The  roses,  shedding  soft,  pink  petal-showers, 
The  lily-bells  and  cherry  blosoms  say, 

"Not  silence,  for  this  moment's  grace  is  ours 
To  sing:  'Rejoice,  the  Lord  is  risen  each  day'." 
— Marguerite  Stabler. 


"The  law  of  the  harvest  is  to  reap  more  than 
you  sow.  Sow  an  act,  and  you  reap  a  habit; 
sow  a  habit  and  you  reap  a  character;  sow  a 
character  and  you  reap  destiny." — Selected. 

"I  am  not  bound  to  win,  but  I  am  bound  to  be 
true;  I  am  not  bound  to  succeed,  but  I  am  bound 
to  live  by  the  light  I  have." — Abraham  Lincoln. 

Could  I  in  stature  reach  the  pole, 
Or  grasp  creation  in  my  span, 

I'd  still  be  measured  by  my  soul; 
The  soul's  the  stature  of  the  man. 

—Whitier. 


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I  do  not  ask  for  any  crown 

But  that  which  all  may  win; 
Nor  try  to  conquer  any  world 

Except  the  one  within. 
Be  thou  my  guide  until   I  find, 

Led  by  a  tender  hand, 
The  happy  kingdom  in  myself, 

And  dare  to  take  command. 

— Louisa  M.  Alcott. 


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In  this  matter-of-fact  world  take  care  not  to 
part  with  all  your  sentiment.  You  will  need  it, 
as  you  go  along,  to  sweeten  your  daily  living,  and 
it  is  also  a  good  thing  to  carry  into  old  age. 

"Let  the  falling  out  of  friends  be  the  renewing 
of  affection." 

The  soul's  dark  cottage  battered  and  decayed 
Lets  in  new  light  through  chinks  that  time  has  made. 

— Waller. 


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!f\Yi/J      Forgive  and   forget!      Why   the  world  would  be 
1'AM/  lonely, 

The   garden  a  wilderness  left  to  deform, 

If  the  flowers  but  remembered  the  killing  breeze 

only, 

And   the   fields  gave  no  verdure   for   fear  of  the 
storm.  — Charles  Swain. 


"If  Heaven  had  looked  upon  riches  to  be  a 
valuable  thing,  it  would  not  have  given  them  to 
scoundrels." 

Or  rich  or  poor,  it  matters  not, 
Where  sweet  contentments  reign; 

The  majesiy  of  wealth  is  but 
A  fiction  of  the  brain. 

— H.   C.    Watte. 

"God  gives  us  all  some  small  sweet  way, 
To  set  the  world  rejoicing." 

All  service  ranks  the  same  with  God, 
There  is  no  last  nor  first. 

— Browning. 


Do  all  the  good  you  can,  to  all  the  people  you 
can,  in  all  the  ways  you  can,  and  as  long  as  you 
can. — Selected. 

Let  fate  do  her  worst;  there  are  relics  of  joy, 
Bright    dreams    of    the    past,    which    she    cannot 

destroy ; 

Which  come  in  the  night-time  of  sorrow  and  care, 
And  bring  back  the  features  that  joy  used  to  wear. 
Long,  long,  be  my  heart  with  such  memories  filled ! 
Like  the  vase,  in  which  roses  have  once  been 

distilled — 
You  may  break,  you  may  shatter  the  vase  if  you 

will, 

But  the  scent  of  the  roses  will  hang  round  it  still. 

— Moore. 


"A  friend  is  not  truly  known  and  loved, 
Till  known  and  loved  in  God." 

If  we  love  those  we  lose,  can  we  altogether  lose 
those  we  love? — 


45 


I  cannot  always  know  and  understand 

The   Master's   rule; 
I  cannot  always  do  the  tasks  He  gives 

In  life's  hard  school; 
But  I  am  learning  with  His  help  to  solve 

Them  one  by  one, 
And  when  I  cannot  understand,  to  say 

"Thy  will  be  done." 

— Gertrude  Custer. 

Covet  nothing  that  is  thy  neighbor's,  except 
kindness   of   heart,    and   gentleness   of   manners. 
Henry   Van 


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his 


"To  know  that  man  is  greater  than  his  acts, 
to  believe  in  him,  in  spite  of  his  wrong  doing,  this 
is  to  love  God  whom  we  have  not  seen." 

"The  thing  that  goes  the  farthest 

Toward  making  life  worth  while, 
That  cost  the  least,  and  does  the  most, 
Is  just  a  pleasant  smile." 


46 


"Rock  a  bye,  baby,  the  meadow's  in  bloom; 
May  never  the  frosts  pall  the  beauty  in  gloom; 
Be  thy  world  ever  bright  as  today  it  is  seen; 
Rock  a  bye,  baby,  thy  cradle  is  green." 

"I  want  it  said  of  me  by  those  who  knew  me 
best  that  I  always  plucked  a   thistle  and  planted 
a  flower,  where  I  thought  a  flower  would  grow." 
—  Abraham  Lincoln. 

O,  let  us  be  glad  we're  living  yet; 
The  sun  runs  round  and  the  rain  is  wet 

And  the  bird  flip-flops  its  wing; 
Tennis  and  toil  bring  an  equal  sweat; 
It's  so  much  trouble  to  toil  and  fret, 

So  easy  to  laugh  and  sing. 

—  Edmund  Vance  Coo£e. 

He  that  forgets  his  friend  is  ungrateful  to  him, 
But  he  that  forgets  his  God,  is  ungrateful  to  him- 
lf. —  John  Bunyan. 


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True  politeness  is  to  do  and  say 
The  kindest  things  in  the  kindest  way." 

"From  the  lowest  depths  there  is  a  path  to  the 
loftiest  heights."  —  Carlyle. 


A  rose  to  the  living  is  more 

Than  sumptuous  wreaths  to  the  dead; 
In  filling  love's  infinite  store, 
A  rose  to  the  living  is  more, 
If  graciously  given  before 

The  hungering  spirit  is  fled, — 
A  rose  to  the  living  is  more 

Than  sumptuous  wreaths  to  the  dead. 

— Nixon   Waterman. 


It  makes  no  difference  whether  we  live  or  die, 
we  are  in  the  presence  of  God. — George  Elliot. 


"The  sweet  remembrance  of  the  just 

Shall  flourish  when  he  sleeps  in  dust." 
In  every  parting   there   is   an   image   of   death. 

— George  Elliot. 


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"I  count  myself  in  nothing  else  so  happy  as  in 
a  soul  remembering  my  good  friends." — Shake- 
speare. 


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"Keep  a  watch  on  your  words,  my  darling, 

For  words  are  wonderful   things, 
They  are  sweet  like  the  bee's  sweet  honey, 
Like  the  bee's  they  have  terrible  stings." 
"It  is  not  what  we  read  but  what  we  remember 

that  makes  us  learned, 
It  is  not  what  we  intend  but  what  we  do,  that 

makes  us  useful, 

It  is  not  a  few  faint  wishes,  but  a  life-long  strug- 
gle that  makes  us  valiant." 

— Henry   Ward  Beecher. 

"We  find  the  world  as  it  finds  us,  and  if  you 
look  at  it  through  'rose  colored  glasses,'  you  will 
find  this  dear  old  planet  fairly  overflowing  with 
good-natured,  cheery-faced  folks,  who  will  be  glad 
to  see  you." 

"If  pain  afflict,  or  wrong  oppress, 

If  cares  distract,  or  fears  dismay, 
If  guilt  deject,  if  sin  distress, 

In  every  case,  still  watch  and  pray." 

— Hymn. 

When  despondent  or  burdened  read  Psalms  91, 
25,  27,  28. 

If  people  seem  unkind,  read  the  fifteenth  chap- 
ter of  John. 

If  you  cannot  have  your  own  way  in  every- 
thing, keep  silent  and  read  the  third  chapter  of 
James. 


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